Nursery World - Inquiry into early years intervention and life chances gets mixed reaction

A joint inquiry into the role early years intervention plays in shaping lives has been launched to inform the Government’s life chances strategy.

The inquiry, launched by the Commons Work and Pensions and Education Select Committees, will examine Government proposals to introduce new life chances indicators – such as tracking child poverty by monitoring educational attainment at 16 and the number of children living in workless households. It also intends to set out a range of other indicators, including family breakdown, debt and addiction.

MP Frank Field, chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said, ‘All the evidence points to our life chances being largely established in the very early years from the womb onwards. We can predict as children cross the school threshold for the first time their attainment and chances of gainful employment.’

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